Course Leader
The course is lead by Godfrey Parkin, author of Doing Business Digitally and the international hit Digital Marketing: Strategies for Success. He is a twenty year veteran of the European and US internet marketing industry, who previously ran the global business services operations of market research giant A.C. Nielsen. He has run several successful pioneering businesses in the digital space; in the 1990s he created North America's best-selling enterprise-wide elearning series E-biz Insights and built the world's largest Project Management e-learning company.

Godfrey has advised many global organisations ranging from giants like American Express, Honda, Nestle, Credit Suisse, Cisco Systems and the Georgia Institute of Technology, to large consulting firms and small start-ups. He is a faculty member of the University of Stellenbosch - Executive Development (USB-ED) , and manages several online social networks, including the E-learning Forum of the American Society for Training and Development. He is a permanent member of the judging panel for the international Brandon Hall Learning Excellence Awards and Technology Excellence Awards, and speaks at conferences around the world.

This up-to-the-minute course teaches the best strategic approaches to exploiting social media. You’ll learn how to put together a social strategy, how to sell it to senior management, how to implement it, and how to measure its ROI.

You will gain insight into how best to select and leverage the major social tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn. You’ll discover why communities are more powerful than branded pages, why fan-base numbers are not that important, and why the best community for your commercial goals may not be on the mainstream social networks at all. You’ll learn powerful strategies, tactics and methodologies (such as Britefire’s Social Media Lens) for leveraging buzz. You’ll explore alternative approaches for structuring your organisation to manage social communities, and you’ll discover the best tools and techniques for measuring, reporting, and staying ahead of the curve.
This course:

Why should I attend?
Today, everyone with a Facebook page claims to be a social media guru. You need to be one of the few who actually are. It’s not about the tools, or being able to whip up a branded Facebook page or YouTube channel – it’s about using the most appropriate platforms and optimising your on-going conversation strategy to add value to your customer’s processes, while achieving your business goals. And that all flows from the sound social media strategy you will develop during the course.

What will I learn?
You will leave this course with a deep understanding of why social media are so powerful if used well. You’ll also have a practical ability to create your own social media marketing strategy, and be empowered to sell it to senior management. What is more you will be equipped with an arsenal of best practices, inspiring and enlightening examples, and guidelines for staying ahead of the curve. You will learn:

how to use social networks for growing your brand or your business

how innovative marketers leverage social media for cost-effective brand building

why the new consumer behaviours impact your organisation

ground rules for engaging the networked mobile consumer

how to structure the components of a social media campaign

how to evaluate and decide on the different platforms available to you

how content marketing and influence marketing can impact your SEO

how to structure your organisation to manage communities

how to measure and evaluate the performance and ROI of social media

a host of valuable guidelines, references and rules of thumb

Please note: Hana Hana is a strategic course for marketing managers, NOT a tools-specific skills course. If you need to learn hands-on how to set up, customise and integrate social media platforms, you should participate in one of Britefire’s specialised Social Media Boot Camps.

Who should attend?
If social media is part of your responsibility, or if you are responsible for marketing, media, PR, CRM, customer engagement or internal corporate communications, this course is a must! Participants who have found this workshop invaluable include:

business leaders and entrepreneurs

marketing managers

communication strategists

advertising and PR agency personnel

digital project managers

The course is crafted for non-technical business people as well as those techies who want a commercial competitive digital perspective. South African companies whose participants have given Britefire courses rave reviews include Wesbank, PwC, FNB, MWEB, FinWeek, Exclusive Books, Clicks, Makro, GCIS, Investec, University of Stellenbosch Business School, Random House Struik, The Foschini Group, Distell, Standard Bank, UNISA, Shoprite, SA Tourism, Deloitte, and Media 24.

Register For This Course
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